In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
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Related Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of... FLOYD SKLOOT I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influ... DAVID ALMOND Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u... KARIN SLAUGHTER Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u... KARIN SLAUGHTER I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. KIRAN DESAI No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. DAVID SEDARIS It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Be... BEN MARCUS I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmit... KARIN SLAUGHTER Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Do... PHIL KLAY It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was... KAROLYN GRIMES Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, sh... DARRYL PINCKNEY I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. DREW GILPIN FAUST My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ... BONNIE TYLER In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'... CHANG-RAE LEE My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsy... CHRISTINE EBERSOLE My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer... SUE MILLER I did a picture 40 years ago with Carroll O'Connor and Telly Savalas, God rest their souls, and ... DON RICKLES I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry B... DONALD RAY POLLOCK I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she ... SHILPA SHETTY When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ... FRANCES MAYES About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense... ROBERT MORGAN It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she ... HANK SNOW My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper Ne... ALAN HOVHANESS Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ... DOUG DAVIDSON I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being... MELODY BEATTIE Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive. CARA DELEVINGNE I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ... HARRIET WALTER My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself... TOM PARKER BOWLES It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,'... JASON BATEMAN I have great respect for Sandra Day O'Connor. She has broken so many barriers for women in the l... KYRSTEN SINEMA I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that'... DAVE BRUBECK There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR In yourself right now is all the place you've got. FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. FLANNERY O'CONNOR If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church t... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Chris... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a const... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write to discover what I know. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Grace changes us and change is painful". FLANNERY O'CONNOR The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. FLANNERY O'CONNOR She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w... FLANNERY O'CONNOR That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. FLANNERY O'CONNOR For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. FLANNERY O'CONNOR She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. FLANNERY O'CONNOR I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing. FLANNERY O'CONNOR The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd. FLANNERY O'CONNOR So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of compete... FLANNERY O'CONNOR From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recolle... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. FLANNERY O'CONNOR [W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am onl... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me. FLANNERY O'CONNOR In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by m... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Week before last I went to Wesleyan and read “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” After it I went to on... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't sti... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The park was the heart of the city. He had come to the city – and with a knowing in his blood – ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR ...sitting with him was like sitting by yourself; he didn't talk except when it suited him. You aske... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You might as well go one place as another," he said. "That's all I know. FLANNERY O'CONNOR His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he m... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Leave!’ Hazel Motes cried. ‘Go ahead and leave! The truth don’t matter to you. Listen,’ he s... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's gl... FLANNERY O'CONNOR This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [...] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you... FLANNERY O'CONNOR
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CARLISLE FLOYD Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has surv... CARLISLE FLOYD If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody. RAY FLOYD Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking f... KEITH FLOYD You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. DOUG FLOYD Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall. PINK FLOYD If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a... PINK FLOYD If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this d... PINK FLOYD I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to. PINK FLOYD How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after ... PINK FLOYD There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through ... PINK FLOYD There's someone in my head but it's not me. PINK FLOYD And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel cold as a razor blade,
Tight as a tourniquet,
Dry a... PINK FLOYD There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,... FLOYD DELL You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. DOUG FLOYD Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. FLOYD DELL If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically... CARLISLE FLOYD I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have... FLOYD ABRAMS It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For th... FLOYD ABRAMS Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed. RAYMOND FLOYD The girls are very excited and pumped up. They are a little nervous, but I think they are ready for ... ANGELL FLOYD I was trying to slow the ball down and they were trying to push the ball. That is the difference in ... ANGELL FLOYD Our defense picked up in the third quarter. Our defense was horrible in the second quarter. We were ... ANGELL FLOYD It was ugly but it was a win and we'll take it. ANGELL FLOYD It was good to see the girls can overcome obstacles and even pick up their game even more. They step... ANGELL FLOYD When her shot is on, give it to her. ANGELL FLOYD If we can hang with them, then we can hang with most anybody else in the state. It is good to see th... ANGELL FLOYD I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unle... CARLISLE FLOYD Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love i... FLOYD HENDERSON What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of nat... CARLISLE FLOYD [One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what... FLOYD ABRAMS [Appearing on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgera... FLOYD ABRAMS [Appearing Sunday on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. F... FLOYD ABRAMS [That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Mil... FLOYD ABRAMS Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the ... FLOYD ABRAMS I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, se... FLOYD ABRAMS will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that... FLOYD ABRAMS a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well. FLOYD ABRAMS coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House. FLOYD ABRAMS Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently ... FLOYD ABRAMS I was choosing a subject matter that tries to depict the period more accurately, rather than the his... CARLISLE FLOYD I tried to use the voice so it was not strictly recitative or singing or spoken word. I tried a grea... CARLISLE FLOYD I had all the normal interests-I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also develop... CARLISLE FLOYD I don't know how any of my operas will play in 20 years. It will have a lot to do with the fashions ... CARLISLE FLOYD America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vi... CARLISLE FLOYD There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,... FLOYD DELL If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class. RAY FLOYD I told him that if he ran (for governor) his bipartisan honeymoon as mayor would come to an end and ... FLOYD CIRULI A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting ... FLOYD ABRAMS [In an interview yesterday, Abrams declined to endorse Miller's account that Libby did not want her ... FLOYD ABRAMS They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken. RAY FLOYD When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpseOut of the corner of my eye.I turned to look but it wa... PINK FLOYD How I wish, how I wish you were here...We're just two lost soulsswimming in a fish bowl,Year after y... PINK FLOYD If you have anything on the throw and it's accurate, you've got a chance, CLIFF FLOYD A roller coaster. We went from thinking we were in it to being out of it like that. It was shocking. CLIFF FLOYD I don't recall seeing anything quite like this. TIM FLOYD We want to try to hit a happy medium so everybody's happy. We won't want a bunch of money. The goal ... ALLEN FLOYD That's a market we've been working on for years. It's good news, real good news. It'll give the chip... ALLEN FLOYD Wish You Were Here" So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.... PINK FLOYD Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun PINK FLOYD Money, it's a gas, PINK FLOYD How could you treat me this way?Running away.I need you, Babe.Why are you running away? PINK FLOYD Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old. PINK FLOYD Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr... PINK FLOYD Is There Anybody Out There? PINK FLOYD Encumbered forever by desire and ambition,
There's a hunger still unsatisfied,
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will you still hold me tonight
and if I open my heart to you
and show... PINK FLOYD We're just trying to keep our heads above water. Like I said, we're in last place. The organization ... CLIFF FLOYD You know Carlos might have had a life-altering experience. He knows how close he came to being real ... CLIFF FLOYD Then I look at myself: 'What are you not doing?' Take the positive out of everything, no matter what... CLIFF FLOYD That's when the book is good: the struggle part, CLIFF FLOYD If we believe we can do it, we'll be OK. CLIFF FLOYD He definitely says he'll be all right, CLIFF FLOYD It's been tough for me, ... It's one of those things I'm not too good with. Especially since I lean ... CLIFF FLOYD It's always important to see where you stand as a team. In a division like this, you need all the he... CLIFF FLOYD [One of Miller's lawyers involved in the earlier discussions, Floyd Abrams, said there was] a great ... FLOYD ABRAMS Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of ... FLOYD DELL Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. You're gonna go far, fly high, You're never gonna die, You're ... PINK FLOYD